First of all:I discovered Mint/Cinnamon, when Linux Format crowned it King of the Distributions. Since I was becoming increasingly unhappy with where Ubuntu was heading, (The Twilight Zone?), I wanted a change. Mint 13 and now Mint 14 has now become my Linux of Choice - and I have discovered that many of my Linux pals, and even a few strangers, are making the switch.

Thanks for an excellent distribution!

Second:Please accept my apologies if this question has already been asked. After about fifteen minutes searching the Web and the various Mint fora, I have not yet found an answer.

Issue:

When I open any window, for any application, within Mint 13 or 14, the window always opens in "full screen" mode, completely covering whatever was there on the screen.

If I take a window out of full screen mode, close it, and then re-open it, it again returns to full-screen mode.

I opened gconf-editor, went to desktop ==> cinnamon ==> windows since several articles said that window specific settings were found here. In my case there was only one entry: Theme - MintX

How do I:1. Get the windows to open at a reasonable size, instead of full-screen mode.

2. Get the windows to remember last-placed position and dimensions when closed.

Thanks again for a wonderful distribution.

Jim (JR)

Some see things as they are, and ask "Why?" I dream things that never were, and ask "Why Not".Robert F. Kennedy

“Impossible” is only found in the dictionary of a fool. Old Chinese Proverb